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Addition Recovery Community Milton Keynes (ARC-MK) - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The Addiction Recovery Community (ARC-MK) helps people in Milton Keynes who want to break a cycle of addiction to substances such as heroin, club drugs, other types of stimulants or long term alcohol addiction. It represents the bringing together of a multi-disciplinary team under one roof to provide a holistic service to people over the age of 18 years old, living in Milton Keynes.

Interview will be taken place face to face. Please note that the use of AI is monitored and if used in your application must be declared.

Role Overview:
An exciting opportunity has become available at ARC-MK to work within the Addictions Team as a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist. The aim of the role is to provide specialist addiction nursing support in the form of assessment, engagement and intervention for patients with substance use needs, supporting integration into the community, preventing reoffending and facilitating engagement with the local community substance misuse team ARC-MK.

Key Responsibilities:
- Work with a wide range of services.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills.
- Exhibit flexibility while working alongside different groups.
- Work effectively as part of a team and independently in various environments.
- Provide supervision support for practice within the team.

Qualifications:
- Experienced registered nurse with knowledge of mental health and substance misuse disorders.
- Demonstrable experience in specialist assessment and decision making.

Training & Development:
We are a forward-facing trust that believes in training and development for nurses' skills. We prioritize supporting prospective applicants to learn new skills related to providing service users addictions support.

Opportunities include gaining understanding essential skills underpinning clinical practice such as motivational interviewing techniques, relapse management, venepuncture, ECGs, dry blood spot testing, and fibro scan training.

Clinical Duties:
- Manage treatment provision for individuals using novel psychoactive substances along with associated problem drink/drug use attending services/units.
- Implement harm minimization approaches including motivational interviewing, relapse prevention care planning individual interventions health assessments education detoxification programs pre/post-test BBVs counseling vaccination group work.

Assessment & Care Management:
- Continuously assess psychological emotional social rehabilitative needs considering family local community needs developing systematic care plans evaluating treatment plans.

Client Interaction:
- Assess case manage clients who inject drugs focusing on injection sites adhering harm minimization principles.

Quality Measures & Monitoring Tools:
- Use agreed Treatment Outcome Monitoring Tools (TOP) along with relevant quality measures contributing towards care plan development provision review managing transfers between agencies/services.

Counseling & Support:
- Counsel individuals regarding their substance use behaviors utilizing motivational interviewing relapse management evidence-based interventions providing clinical advice support colleagues healthcare settings other agencies involved substance misuse.

Drug Administration:
- Responsible for safe effective storage administration drugs maintaining statutory records per Trust Policies/Procedures on drug supply carriage community ensuring risk assessments risk management delivered effectively undertaking dry blood spot testing BBV urinalysis when required screening clients at risk affected by blood borne diseases planning agreeing service responses according needs promoting Hepatitis B vaccination administering vaccinations per CNWL Medicine Policies Protocols discussing pre/post-test results clients screened blood borne viruses following CNWL guidelines ensuring adherence CNWL Hepatitis care plan actively promoting attendance hepatology clinics liver disease affected clients collaborating Statutory Non Statutory teams GPs Primary Care Services Virology Chemical Pathology Liver/Gastroenterology Departments providing expert care without direct medical supervision using clinical guidance documents patient group directions agreed by Trust assisting transfer individuals between services Hepatology/Gastroenterology relevant agencies familiarizing oneself Trust local Resuscitation Infection Control Needle Stick Injury Policies Procedures attending mandatory yearly updates CPR Anaphylaxis training understanding implementing clinical governance policies working within CNWL's Child Protection Policy partnering all agencies responsible compliance local Safeguarding Children's Board practices preparing reports attending client meetings professional network meetings Child Protection Case Conferences Core Group meetings planning agreeing service responses meeting individual circumstances clients at risk affected by substance misuse during pregnancy recognizing professional duty protect where risks identified complying statutory requirements regarding Safeguarding Children Child Protection including Children Act 1989 Hidden Harm guidelines assessing client risk behaviors providing information implications risks identified health social well-being collaborating addressing modifying behaviors promote positive changes.